Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 16:02:51 -0400 To: "'cygwin@sources.redhat.com'" Subject: Re: bugs in zip and bash Message-ID: <20001017160251.B11871@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Mail-Followup-To: "'cygwin@sources.redhat.com'" References: <03F4742D8225D21191EF00805FE62B9904B3F56E@aa-msg-01.medstat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.6i In-Reply-To: <03F4742D8225D21191EF00805FE62B9904B3F56E@aa-msg-01.medstat.com>; from John.Wiersba@medstat.com on Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:26:28PM -0400 On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:26:28PM -0400, John Wiersba wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf@cygnus.com] >> On Tue, Oct 17, 2000 at 02:05:40PM -0400, John Wiersba wrote: >>>6) Could you put some marker on the emails from the cygwin mailing >>>list, so they are easily identifiable from an email client? Like >>>putting the list name as the first name in the To: line or putting >>>[cygwin] on the subject line? >> >>No. This will never, ever happen on my watch. I abhor these markers. > >Chris, > >How about some reasoning other than just "I abhor it"? I answered this in my original email. There is no need to add a tag when you can do filtering on the header. >You know, I was asking for a reason, not just to annoy you. :-) Well, the fact that I and others abhor the tags and that it is easy to filter on the headers seems like an adequate reason. >Maybe there's some compromise which would serve my needs and others' >without causing you the willies. For example: > >How about forcing the list name in the "To:" line so the emails could >be recognized by a simple scan of the left side of the "To" field? I >don't see how you could abhor that. How about investigating the available alternatives yourself? Your mail agent can filter and we provide tags specifically for this reason. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com